Chapter 694: Bullying the younger generation counts for nothing; let’s have a competition【2 updates】
ng Qingxue had lived for twenty-four years and had never suffered such great humiliation and injury.
How could the ng Family’s cherished pearl be bullied by outsiders like this?
But it indeed happened on the competition stage, with so many people watching.
Moreover, ng Qingxue didn’t lose because Ying Zijin intentionally made a deadly poison for her.
It was all because she overlooked the blind spot that Ying Zijin had switched the order of the dicinal ingredients, resulting in a wrongly refined antidote.
And because her body couldn’t stand the cold, the cooling nature of the Energy Dissipating Pill caused great harm.
The ng Family understood this reasoning, but none of them could swallow this indignity.
ng Qingxue was also raised in front of ng Wan’s very eyes.
Madam ng had encountered an evil doctor during her pregnancy with ng Qingxue and, though not captured, her body was damaged.
ng Qingxue was born frail, and the ng Family elders were very distressed, ticulously caring for her until now.
“We needn’t compete.” ng Wan tapped on the table, placing a pill on the surface, indifferently, “Eat this pill, endure for three minutes, and I’ll give you the antidote.”
Ying Zijin slowly turned her head.
The girl had stunningly beautiful features, with a cool and distant expression.
The slightly uptilted phoenix eyes, however, added a trace of enchantnt.
Her beauty was breathtaking.
ng Wan’s gaze faltered.
She had learnt about ng Qingxue’s affection for Fu Yunshen and now had to admit that Ying Zijin truly possessed a remarkable appearance.
“ng Wan, Senior, this is going too far.” Hall Master Li’s expression changed, “What did Miss Ying do wrong, to deserve to eat this pill?”
If he wasn’t mistaken, this pill was the Heart-Eating Pill.
If ingested, how long would the pain last?
“I didn’t say she was wrong. On the contrary, I quite appreciate her talent in refining dicine.” ng Wan spoke casually, “But seeing Qingxue suffer because of her irks . Is that not allowed?”
As she spoke, she looked at the girl again, smiling, “Of course, you have elders to back you up, and I welco that. But the question is, do you?”
ng Wan was one hundred and twenty years old, and the oldest Great Elder of the Pill Alliance was only eighty.
Who could compare to her in dical skill?
Ying Zijin rolled up her sleeves, calmly, “My family’s elders aren’t as shaless as you.”
ng Wan’s face imdiately darkened.
She had always been held in high regard, with the younger generations showing her respect. Who dared speak to her like this?
Just as ng Wan was about to scold her, soone interrupted.
“ng Wan, you truly beco shaless with age.” Laughter ca through, laced with derision, “A person over a hundred years old, nearly in the grave, now wants to compete in dical skill with a young girl?”
“What’s the point of bullying the junior? Why not we have a competition?”
ng Wan frowned and looked up.
It was a woman in her early thirties, with a kind face, and elegant in appearance.
Surprised, Hall Master Li imdiately knelt down, “Alliance Leader!”
The Pill Alliance Leader, Qiu Man, was also one hundred and twenty years old.
She was a level seven Pill Master, representing the pinnacle of the Pill Alliance’s dical skills!
Very few from the Ancient dical Field lived past a hundred years old, and altogether they would definitely not exceed a hundred.
ng Wan’s expression changed, her voice squeezed through clenched teeth, “You’re still alive.”
The Pill Alliance’s leader had not appeared for years, with the Pill Alliance stating she was in closed-door cultivation.
“How can I die before you?” Qiu Man glanced at ng Wan indifferently, “Weren’t you about to compare alchemy? Let’s do it! Right now!”
“Let everyone else see, when facing soone of the sa level, whether you dare to be arrogant!”
With Qiu Man’s return, the Elders Council and the Vice Alliance Leader also entered.
Surrounded by so many people, ng Wan’s aged face grew flushed with anger, her complexion burning with pain.
She could no longer stay and left with her face ashen.
“Tsk, just a Heart-Eating Pill? I thought it was so grand dicine.” Qiu Man scoffed, “If the ng Family sends soone else, tell them I’ve returned. They can co whenever they like.”
Ying Zijin was part of the Pill Alliance, and the alliance had long been in need of a genius.
Although Lin Qingjia was also a mber, she was ultimately from the Lin Family.
Ying Zijin had to be well-protected by the Pill Alliance.
Qiu Man personally asked soone to bring the dicine for Ying Zijin from the dicine Repository and then added, “You took more than a month’s leave, what was it for?”
Ying Zijin replied concisely, “Watching TV dramas.”
She took a step back, nodding slightly, “I’ll take my leave now.”
Qiu Man nodded and then wondered, “What in the world is a TV drama?”
With hesitation, Hall Master Li took out his phone, “It’s this.”
Qiu Man frowned, “How did these people get inside?”
Hall Master Li hurriedly explained, “No, no, no, Leader, this is a recording, the high technology of the outside world.”
Qiu Man waved her hand dismissively, “Troubleso, I’m heading to the Alchemy Room.”
**
After retrieving her herbs, Ying Zijin t up with Fu Yunshen, then went to seek out the Tea Saint.
The old lady was pressing the Little dicine Boy to grill fish for her.
Upon seeing the girl, she imdiately cheered up, “Co, co, co, Ying Girl, sit.”
She then pointed to a spot and said to Fu Yunshen, “You go over there.”
Fu Yunshen raised his eyebrows, “Alright, as long as you’re good to her.”
The old lady huffed, “Nonsense.”
The status of the Tea Saint is not the sa as that of ordinary ancient dical practitioners.
Simply put, although the Ancient Divine Doctor has high attainnts in the Thirteen Ghost Gate Needles and is also a divine doctor of the Heavenly dical Sect’s founder level,
when he’s gone, another divine doctor will appear after a few years, or perhaps soone even more formidable than him.
However, if the Tea Saint is gone, it’s not just a few years, but even decades or a hundred years before another genius might erge who has reached the pinnacle in cultivating dicinal herbs.
The Tea Saint doesn’t possess much Ancient Martial Cultivation; not even ten years’ worth.
Yet neither ancient martial artists nor evil doctors would harm the Tea Saint in the slightest.
Because there are so dicinal herbs that truly only she can grow.
As a result, the old lady’s place is actually quite safe.
Ying Zijin was inside treating the old lady, while Fu Yunshen and the Little dicine Boy stood guard in the yard.
After administering acupuncture to the old lady, Ying Zijin wrote down a prescription, “Take the dicine on ti, and you’ll be well in seven days.”
The old lady took it, repeatedly saying, “Good, good.”
Ying Zijin nodded, “What’s troubling Grandma’s heart?
“It’s not really a big deal.” The old lady fell silent for a mont before slowly speaking, “My husband died at the hands of an evil doctor eighty years ago. His body was not left intact; they took it to refine dicine.”
Ying Zijin’s expression beca slightly focused.
Again, it was an evil doctor.
Foo Xi had also told her that decades ago, evil doctors were rampant. When one died, another would erge, and they seed impossible to completely eradicate.
“Big brother, you’re so amazing.” On the other side, the Little dicine Boy was gleefully saying, “I’ve finally completed my ga.”
“Kid, they say you’re extrely clever.” Fu Yunshen tapped his bald head, the corners of his lips lifting, “With not a single hair on your head, how can you still be this silly?”
The Little dicine Boy squatted in the corner and cried sadly.
Fu Yunshen glanced sideways, his peach blossom eyes curved in a smile, “Yaoyao.”
Ying Zijin looked back, “Hmm?”
Fu Yunshen stated slowly, “Let’s have a daughter.”
Ying Zijin’s eyebrows quirked up, “Why are you thinking so far ahead? And what did the son do to annoy you?”
“I might not be able to help myself from bullying a son, and it wouldn’t be good if I made him cry.”
“…”
Such reasoning was strangely irrefutable.
**
Elsewhere.
Foo Family.
An Ling ca to visit Foo Chen.
Foo Chen passed on the work of refining dicine to him and laid down on a rocking chair, ready to sleep.
An Ling said, “Just before I ca here, I saw people from the ng Family dispatched.”
Foo Chen was disinterested, “What about it?”
“The ng Family is short on dicine. With the Tea Saint coming down the mountain, those elders went over there to request dicine,” An Ling replied, “If the elders personally plead, the Tea Saint still tends to show so face,”
The Tea Saint did sell dicine from ti to ti, it’s just that her mood was indeed unpredictable.
When she’s in good spirits, she would set up a stall in front of the Pill Alliance and kick off a firesale with rock-bottom prices.
This ti with the Tea Saint coming down the mountain, indeed, many people were queueing up in preparation to seek an audience.
“Oh right, I saw the Tea Saint at the winter hunting event the other day,” Foo Chen rembered, “The old lady is quite gluttonous—or rather, she has a big appetite.”
That evening, Yun Shan and Yun Wu caught a pig and a whole lamb, as well as many chickens and rabbits.
Foo Chen was thinking he could at least get a roasted rabbit leg, but in the end, all the tender parts were taken by the old lady.
That little bald kid by the old lady’s side could eat a lot too.
Foo Chen ended up eating seven or eight spicy rabbit heads, numbing his mouth.
“You t her?” An Ling was first taken aback, then beca excited, “Where did you see her? Could it be that the Lin Family made the connection for you?”
He had only heard that Lin Qingjia knew the Tea Saint.
But upon further thought, An Ling realized sothing wasn’t right.
Although the winter hunt of the Ancient dical Field had sent an invitation to Lin Qingjia, she didn’t attend.
Thinking about it made sense.
As an ancient martial artist, Lin Qingjia’s cultivation was conservatively estimated to have exceeded fifty years.
That’s the level of a mid-sized family’s Guard Captain, but those captains are typically people over seventy years of age.
For her, events like the winter hunt were far too simple and not challenging at all.
Her presence would simply overwhelm everyone else.
Foo Chen perked up, yawning continuously, “No, it was Miss Ying who introduced . She and the Tea Saint are sworn friends despite the difference in their ages.”
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